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The Big Ten enjoyed a successful 2014 men's golf season, highlighted by two teams earning bids to the NCAA Men's Golf Championships and Illinois advancing to quarterfinal match play.
NCAA Championships Central: The Big Ten sent two men's golf squads to the NCAA Men's Golf Championships, including Illinois and Purdue. Illinois finished the stroke-play portion of the NCAA Championships in a seventh-place tie, advancing to the eight-team match play championship segment at the Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kan. Illinois fell to Stanford, 3-2, in quarterfinal match play of the NCAA Men's Golf Championships. For more coverage of the NCAA Championships, click here.
See you at Regionals: Six Big Ten teams and one individual were selected to compete in the 2014 NCAA Men's Golf Regionals. Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State and Purdue represented the Big Ten in the team competition, while Michigan's Chris O'Neill traveled as an individual competitor. For the complete release, click here.
All-Conference and Individual Honors: The Big Ten Conference office announced the men's golf All-Conference teams and individual award winners, as voted on by the conference coaches following the 2014 Big Ten Men's Golf Championships. Illinois' Brian Campbell was named the Big Ten Player of the Year, Minnesota's Jose Mendez was tabbed the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and the Golden Gophers' John Carlson claimed Big Ten Coach of the Year honors. For more on the individual award winners and All-Conference teams, click here.
Bring Home the Hardware: Minnesota claimed the Big Ten Championship in men's golf after shooting a four-round score of 1,186 at the 2014 Big Ten Men's Golf Championships. The Golden Gophers were followed by second-place Illinois (1,190), third-place Iowa (1,194), fourth-place Northwestern (1,204) and fifth-place Purdue (1,205) at the par-72, 7,152-yard Pete Dye Course. This is the eighth team title for the Golden Gophers and first since 2007. For more on the Big Ten Men's Golf Championships, click here.
Academic Excellence: On May 28, the Big Ten recognized a total of 1,216 spring and at-large sports student-athletes who have been named to the Academic All-Conference team, which included 45 men's golfers. For more on the Academic All-Big Ten honorees, click here.


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Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in conjunction with Sony Computer Entertainment America's Santa Monica Studios, SIREN puts the player into an alternate reality, capable of raising the heart-beat and creating a true sense of suspense and fear allowing for a new horror entertainment experience. In the blink of an eye, everything can change in SIREN. Set in a fictional Japanese village, a terrible force slowly turns the civilians into vile creatures. Seen through the eyes of 10 characters, SIREN immerses the player into a personal fight for survival and to unravel the truth behind the mysterious force.
With a story loosely inspired by Japanese folklore and horror movies from around the world, SIREN places the gamer right in the center of the village of Hanuda. Building upon a dark atmosphere and creeping terror, SIREN heralds an exciting new genre of horror games – from a world of fear, mystery and suspense that is focused on extreme background detail and storyline, rather than 'slasher-style' shocks traditionally found in horror entertainment.
In SIREN, which takes place over the course of three days, time is made irrelevant as episodes do not happen in chronological order and the story builds as the player uses their own character's psychic abilities to look through the eyes of the shibito. The shibito or 'living dead' are civilians in the village that have been slowly transforming into evil creatures that are out to destroy the player. Players can steal the viewpoint of the shibito in their surroundings by using the innovative 'sightjack' system, foreseeing danger and predicting enemies' actions. However, in this world of unspeakable evil and horrific visions, this extraordinary observational power could be more of a curse than a blessing.
With 78 missions in the game, every individual has their own chilling story to tell throughout the various episodes, providing not only a mission to survive, but an opportunity to slowly piece together the horrifying events that have overcome the village of Hanuda.
- Survival horror is redefined through the power of PlayStation 2 technology by providing a one-of-a-kind chilling storyline and psychological twist on reality.
- Innovative 'sightjack' system allows for players to steal the viewpoint of others in their surroundings to foresee danger and predict enemies' actions. A very powerful tool, as maps do not show your location or those of your enemies, however, it should be used carefully as the character is left vulnerable to enemies when in this altered state.
- "Scenario link navigator" feature provides an overview of the game that pieces the puzzle of the story together through each character and illustrates gameplay progress.
- Ten playable characters, each embroiled in their own personal fight for survival drawn to Hanuda for various reasons.
- Players will experience 78 episodes of gameplay that unfold out of order over the course of three days. As players complete more objectives, they will see how characters and locations are woven together in the intricate story.
- Real-life character modeling
- Dark, chilling atmosphere that provides a world of fear and suspense. The dampness is almost palpable, as the player is immersed into a world of fog, rain and darkness.
- Chilling music mixed with haunting sound effects increase the suspense and immerse the player into the horrors of Hanuda.

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Messiah Lifeways plans $73M expansion
Messiah Lifeways is planning a $73 million expansion of Messiah Village, its continuing care retirement community in Cumberland County.
Plans will be formally presented to the Upper Allen Township planning commission on July 28, according to a news release.
The expansion is designed to meet the "changing needs of future generations and their families," the faith-based nonprofit said, and is part of Project Envision, "a mission-driven strategic plan that looks ahead to 2035."
In the first phase of Project Envision, Messiah plans to build Village Square, "an innovative town village concept featuring 80 spacious apartment homes with underground parking and numerous lifestyle amenities including a wellness and enrichment center, spa, and bistro open both to residents and the public aged '55 and better,'" the release says.
"The first phase of Project Envision will also include the addition of 26 new large apartments in the Enhanced Living/personal care neighborhoods and the addition of two new nursing neighborhoods that will yield a total of 64 highly sought-after private rooms," it says.
According to Curt Stutzman, CEO of Messiah, groundbreaking is planned for fall 2015, with completion of the first phase about a year later and the first residents anticipated early in 2017.
"We believe that there are many ways to embrace the journey of growing older. Project Envision and all its strategic components are meant to change the conversation — and offer inspired, purposeful choices for many lifestyles. Whether you are aging in place in the community, visiting our wellness and enrichment programs, caring for a loved one, or dreaming of an active, independent lifestyle, Messiah Lifeways can meet your needs," said Stutzman.
Messiah developed Messiah Village in 1978; it has residential cottages, private apartments and personal care and skilled nursing residences. Messiah also says it continues to expand its mission through community services, including adult day care centers, life coaching, home care, rehab and a grassroots age-in-place membership program. The organization served nearly 2,400 persons this year, it says.


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Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #15 on:
April 04, 2010, 05:56:40 PM »
Yet another toon-furry grey fox
Posts: 355
Mage of Caerreyn, Level 2
That's awesome.
"Mission taken!"
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #16 on:
April 17, 2010, 02:39:38 AM »
Secret Wizard
"For the glory of the sammich!"
Posts: 518
Mage of Caerreyn, Level 3
two days ago I had a dream. It took place in a white facility akin to a school. Though, it was kind of older so it wasn't really pristine white, but not really dirty either... anyway, the dream involved me going to the bathroom, then walking out and pas two or three people.
that's basically it- the only weird thing about it is how un-weird it is compared to my other dreams...
I think my brain is going meta on me in my sleep.
When was the last time you hugged your sammich?
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #17 on:
April 17, 2010, 10:30:05 AM »
Secret Wizard
"For the glory of the sammich!"
Posts: 518
Mage of Caerreyn, Level 3
right then, got another one today.
this once took place in a spaceship under attack from hostile aliens, and all I can remember of them was that they were dark and had giganormous claws, and naturally spewing hallucinogens as well as being intelligent to some degree. At the start it's mid-way through, and it turns out the aliens have hijacked the ship's artificial gravity and made it go sideways, forcing the crew to painstakingly crawl up the walls of the ship to try and stop them. During the process for this, the aliens kept making it harder and harder to climb, until they're just going straight up the flat wall, but then rather stupidly keeps going, allowing them to drop down to the opposite wall and walk on ahead.
The next portion was a larger room compared to the previous hallway, with a room between the one the crew (including, apparently, myself) were headed for and the one we were in. While we were safe where we were, the aliens tried to coax us out with hallucinations of things we very much wanted, and I was the only one who didn't leave at the sight of them. I knew they were fake, but more importantly it pissed me off that the aliens were doing this. For me in particular, they showed the TARDIS, sometimes more than once. It actually led to me having a bark-off with a hallucination of a dog, the breed of which I am not sure.
Fast forward again, and we got to where we were going, but I'm badly injured and have to go back to the other room to get healed up with magic space technology. An alien stops me and we both wind up killing each other, and the dream ends.
When was the last time you hugged your sammich?
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #18 on:
April 19, 2010, 03:13:38 PM »
Most Gorgeous Alicorn~
"Imma Pretty Princess~!"
Posts: 1235
Enchanted Weapons Expert
Nother one last night It was the 1856 US presidential election, and for whatever reason I was attempting to convince this printer to go out and vote. The guy had a really really shaggy beard and kept on trying to blow me off, so I told him that if he didnt go out and vote I was going to convince his wife to divorce him. Inscenced at this he tried to pull a gun on me to I (without wondering how this was possible) grabbed a
from a barn and beat him over the head with it. Now the dude was dead and I realized I was covered in blood so I decided to grab a garden hose and spray the area with bleach (both of which were mysteriously now available in 1856). It started well enough but then I realized that if I was running bleach through the hose it was also running through pipes and suddenly worry gripped me that it might be corroding them.
Thinking quickly I went over to tell the neighbor who was pulling weeds and I asked him for help with the pipes. He agrees and the dream starts shifting to a urban slum and as were walking back to my house Im worried that were going to get mugged. The neighbor is edgy and decides to take no chances and starts preemptively shooting everyone he sees so they wont be able to shoot us. I rather worriedly ask him to stop but he responds that if he gets three more points hell get a high score.
Cue another dream shift in which Im playing a game of Space Invaders except theres a glitch involved that keeps on spontaneously making my barriers disappear causing me to die close to a dozen times. Finally I get fed up and go get make myself a pizza only to find the kitchen door is inexplicably blocked by hundreds of boxes of Wheat Thins. Immediately I scream upstairs demanding to know which incompetent member of my family is responsible for the deed. My dad and mother both call down saying they dont know, and suggest I eat my way through the Wheat Thins. Naturally I start grumbling and moaning about how I wanted frozen pizza and not snack food and just start pacing through the downstairs. I come across the computer and find it inexplicably dead. And thats when I wake up.
Who's ready for Princess Hugs~?
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #19 on:
April 26, 2010, 04:18:27 AM »
Secret Wizard
"For the glory of the sammich!"
Posts: 518
Mage of Caerreyn, Level 3
last night I got two, which both took place in the same world, I guess. Sort of medieval times, I think.
The first of the two revolved around three parties: myself, a woman from a royal family, and a wandering rogue-ish swordsman. There was conflict over a large amount of land and who should own it and we all had sort of an argument-off to present pros and cons of eachother and have it be decided that way. Over the course of it, numerous facts were written down on papers and eventually it was discovered that the man and woman came from the same family, and thus got the land.
I went off to who knows where and wound up in a forest of sort-of were-creatures. Sort of in that they stack in one form but can transfer it. I decide to join them and as it turns out to become one you have to kinda "die" and they need your signature, and as I'm talking with one while writing my signature (on the very paper I wrote in the argument thing, which for some reason they had) I accidentally mis-write it as someone else's who is famous, and told I should show it to people afterwards... then I cross it out, and re-write it as my actual signature while explaining, and told to hide it from people because they might get pissed. After that, sort of death thing happens and wake up with options! As it turns out, the people get two options which are a randomized combination of one male something and one female something. For me it was squirrel and cat. At this point, though, I guess a part of my brain said screw the universe, I have the power, because I went wolf anyway.
TL;DR- random squabbling over dirt, first TF dream. Huzzah!
When was the last time you hugged your sammich?
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #20 on:
May 10, 2010, 11:14:13 AM »
Chaotic Neutral Cartoon Gray Fox Mage
"These sorts of things happen."
Posts: 1998
Enchanted Weapons Expert
The other night I dreamt I was
MK Virmir
(meaning I was a good deal grumpier, and charged with a LOT more fire magic) escorting two humans (possibly kids, though they were taller than me), through some sort of gothic stylized, cartoonish nighttime city and ultimately through some dusty old house where they were looking for something. As they rummaged through rooms of the house they used flashlights, but I helped them out (begrudgingly) with my shining orange witchlight to help illuminate what they were doing.
When we got to the even dustier attic, I opened a closet and suddenly a midget
Batman villian Bane
leapt out and tried to stab me with a kitchen knife as epic orchestra music began to play in the background. (I say midget because, while he was bigger than me, he was only about a foot taller, so naturally he must have been a midget version due to my shortness). Of course, I retaliated by sending a number of fireballs (which looked rather Earth Eternal-ish) into his chest, which he mostly shrugged off, but they did cause him to drop his knife. He then resorted to trying to punch me, but I grabbed both his fists as he pushed back. Of course he was way stronger, but as he pushed me to the ground, I lit him on fire and pushed back.
To his credit, him being on fire didn't slow him down at first, but he eventually got weaker and I was able to push back. The amount of fire magic I had to pour into him was substantial though, and it lit the entire place up in a raging inferno. (No idea how the kids I was supposed to be protecting possibly could have survived that, honestly.) He withered and died, and then I woke up as I crouched in the sea of flames, rather exhausted. Phooey.
Last Edit: May 10, 2010, 11:19:08 AM by Virmir
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #21 on:
May 10, 2010, 05:20:19 PM »
Avid Bookworm Cat
"Intuition strikes again!"
Posts: 367
Mage of Caerreyn, Level 2
Interesting... I dreamt of an artifact that is painfully hot to touch if you're unpure of spirit (or something. I found it warm but tolerable), but then I put my palms on it and froze it in a outspreading frost sort of way. Kind of like
this window
but with a different frost pattern. I then proceeded to freeze the entire room I was in. I'm not sure what happened in between but I also remember standing outside my house at night while I shook my hands (in a jazz hand sort of way, but both in front of me palms down) and snowflakes fell out. Their size was proportional to how wild the shaking was.
Also recently I had a dream where I found a magic book with incantations, a dream with royal twins on vacation, another with two people who inherit a prank from their dead uncle, there was a canal with pirates on it, and yet another dream where I fought someone in a duel of summoning monsters (and also we fought ourselves) and every once in a while something would repeat but go a different way.
Of the four elements,
None is predominant.
Of the four seasons,
None lasts forever.
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #22 on:
May 12, 2010, 11:52:24 AM »
Writer Fox, Glasses Fox, Book Fox, Bouncy Fox!
Posts: 654
Mage of Caerreyn, Level 3
I dreamed that I was playing in a field with Jonas, who I think was my pet in the context of the dream. We were playing fetch with a ball and then he tackled me and gave me a nuzzle. I nuzzled him back, having turned just then into an anthro version of Jonas. Something happened (don't remember) and then we were both sitting on a couch watching tv, and I think Jonas was wiggling his paws a lot. I remember trying to see what I was wearing but wasn't able to see because my vision was first person and I was constantly trying to switch it to 3rd person unsuccessfully.
"Technically speaking, phoenixes are actually pretty flammable." --Donnie
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #23 on:
May 15, 2010, 10:05:52 PM »
A digital fox in the quantum age.
""Ion cannon activated" "Oooh, shiny...""
Posts: 382
Digital Vulpine
Mage of Caerreyn, Level 2
Had a rather odd one, at least in my opinion. Started off talking to several people on a dirt road in front of a museum, apparently we were going to get paid "several million" to steal a painting or something from there. (what we would be getting several million of was never specified) We go in, buy tickets, and it turns out that it cost over four million of the local currency (never found out what it was) to get a museum ticket, and we talked about how we better not be getting payed in that.
Inside the museum is a theater, and some kind of band was playing in there. Couldn't hear any music at all though. We all go into the theater, except for one guy who's apparently going after the painting. We all stand near the various doors, when suddenly someone dressed like a clown jumps out from back-stage and attacks the band. We all make our getaway in the confusion, while the security guards detain the clown.
We got the painting, and I seemed to have gotten a L85 from somewhere. For some reason it had an ACOG instead of a SUSAT scope. I hear noise behind us, turn around and see something running at us. I look through the scope, and it's just some kids and three dogs. I lower the rifle and they run past. Out of curiosity I examine the gun more closely and fire a couple shots at a tree, and it turns out to be fake anyway. It sure looks real enough, but it's fake.
I see a group of people acting suspiciously, then walking into a field (wheat, I think, some sort of grain), and decide to follow them to see what they're up to (as if my group doesn't look suspicious enough). Eventually the field comes to a place where the grain has all been cut down, and the group we're following randomly drops down on the ground, crawls a bit, then stands up again to continue walking. After repeating this a few times we come to a road with a wooden watchtower by it.
The group we're following climbs up into the watchtower, and a large truck drives by with a bunch of people in the back, who have a bunch of random old weapons. The watchtower and the truck shoot at each other as it drives past, I run across the road after it's gone, hide in the woods just beyond it, and attach a bayonet to my fake gun for some reason. The truck drives by a couple more times, and three people in black combat gear with MP5's show up in the woods and walk right past where I'm hiding. I threaten them with the fake gun and ask them to identify themselves, apparently I liked what they said, and a fourth guy shows up who's apparently in charge.
I tell him about the fake gun, and he goes into the woods and uncovers a stash of tommy guns. I take one, and some helicopters show up. At first I think they're on our side, but the sergeant guy says he didn't call for any. Sure enough they start shooting at us, and we shoot back. One of them crashes and... I woke up there.
My overall impression was... "What was with that? O_o " Also interesting: other than the crashed chopper I never saw anyone get killed. A-Team shooting I guess?
"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away for a little while..."
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #24 on:
May 21, 2010, 03:01:58 AM »
Avid Bookworm Cat
"Intuition strikes again!"
Posts: 367
Mage of Caerreyn, Level 2
Interesting about the fake gun. I remember I had a dream once where my grandmother had a stache of guns in case of emergencies. And when we found ourselves on an island with dinosaurs that seemed to qualify, but all the guns just shot nerf bullets. Twas weird.
Okay, so I had a dream last night that I was trying to invade some complex or other (I think by the name of Williams). At first it was in third person and I think I was trying to attract attention by teleporting us up the line. I don't remember quite where that went, but next I remember was just outside the actual complex. I was waiting for a break in the incoming members so I could sneak to the side and get in through a window, but someone actually came from the other direction and I had to hide. However there was no where to hide and I ended up trying out an 'ignore me' spell and lay down in the grass next to a hedge. (tiny hedge, no way you could hide in or behind it) The other fifteen or so people ALSO trying to sneak in did a much worse job than I did but the passerby didn't notice any of us. That didn't say much for my spell, but the other 15 not noticing me did. One of them even lay on top of me.
So of course I realized I didn't need to bother waiting for a break in onlookers and just walked over, somehow acquiring a partner on the way. Inside were a whole lot more people looking for an actual way in. After a bit of exploring my partner suggested we go up, so I teleported him up a floor and then proceeded to use my newfound gravity powers to walk up a nearby wall. When I got to where I wanted, I looked at my target and changed gravity in that direction and jumped! Let me tell you, gravity flying is kind of difficult. From what I figured out in the dream, I have to be able to focus on a target in order to accelerate that way which is difficult with the sky in the dark. Also you can't anti-accelerate or decelerate. This means I'd often find myself shooting past my targets, or sometimes even into them. But regardless...
Skipping past the mishaps and dead ends, I found myself in a room with a spiraling (square spiral) staircase suspended in midair. It started shaking so I instantly threw up the 'ignore me' spell and threw myself into a corner against a wall. A woman in a catsuit landed in the middle of the room and shouted, "Don't Move!" and proceeded to throw ninja stars into the wall I was leaning against. I threw up a shield (another spontaneously acquired power) and closed my eyes hoping she wouldn't notice me or hit me by accident. I felt a few collide with the edges of my shield and slide sideways, but I'm not sure a direct impact would have held. When she stopped I opened my eyes and she looked at me and said, "He moved," and then walked out the door we came in.
When I looked over at my partner, he was quite definitely dead. I'd be sadder if I knew who he was :/. Anyway, apparently she overkilled him and the extra damage had to go somewhere cause when I looked down I saw a GBA with a picture of a unicorn on it and a rainbow health bar that was slowly decreasing. I tried to give myself the power to heal by turning MYSELF into a unicorn (digital so I could 'heal' the machine) but it didn't work and neither did my attempt to outright heal the unicorn. I was then struck with the brilliant idea of savepoints so I turned off the machine and tried to turn it on again, but it required the unicorn's cellphone to input a password. I abruptly remembered (don't ask me how, dream logic doesn't really make much sense) him leaving his bag and a cellphone behind a bush outside so I left and flew out on my way, having to dodge an inordinate amount of telephone wires. I managed to find the bag and phone by comparing their location to my car, but it was getting dark so not only did I have trouble finding the complex again, I had trouble actually flying. The dream left off with me asking various people for directions on how to find the complex again.
Last Edit: May 21, 2010, 04:02:12 PM by Stormkit
Of the four elements,
None is predominant.
Of the four seasons,
None lasts forever.
Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #25 on:
May 22, 2010, 07:28:27 AM »
Neutral-Good Congressman
"Only 23 people have died, and many desrved it."
Posts: 77
Mage of Caerreyn, Level 1
I Finally have something to share it seems. (I copied this almost-directly from my FA journal today, but revised it here a bit more)
You all know those cheap Sci-Fi (guess it's SyFy now) horror specials with huge gators and such?
I had a dream that was a rather vivid and not-so-cheap one with piranhas...in New York City.
Now, this was one of those dreams that seems like it takes forever, and there was plenty of plot development and shenanigans like silly radio-DJs (and me playing a weird 3-D Zelda game on an NES Inside the same movie-dream). But then, the first main group of characters trudges through a flooded subway or whatever it was. find it creepy, then they leave and the Next group of characters comes into the same one(including myself) and within 5 minutes everyone except me was ripped apart by whatever was in the water. Then there was me, scared [poo]less, on a mini-sewer island, scared out of my flippin mind. Really, my mind envisioned some pretty good gore in that scene. such as feet being ripped off or someone crawling up to me with bloody stumps for legs. Oh, and I didn't say this in my journal, but they killed a sewer-gator as well right before my group-mates.
Anyway, I never figure out what happens to the handsome rouge seeing as how I woke myself up in fright, but being the protagonist I probably survived.
So..., nice to finally be worthy of the weird-dreams thread.
I've also never been to New York, I guess that since everything else movie/game wise is my mind decided to go there as well.
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Re: Weird Dreams
Reply #26 on:
June 05, 2010, 11:14:58 AM »
Most Gorgeous Alicorn~
"Imma Pretty Princess~!"
Posts: 1235
Enchanted Weapons Expert
Things started more or less normal when we were all going to go shopping with my moms family. Their living in Louisiana of course meant there were swamps everywhere, so we ended up driving down a freeway bridge straight through a swamp, in the middle of which was this new shopping center that was oddly spread out. We got out, fan out, and promptly spaced out, in more ways than one. For suddenly we all forgot about shopping and found ourselves aboard some interstellar colony ship that had all its occupants indoctrinated in some kind of bizarre cult. We never figured out just what exactly what was bizarre about them as the dream left me only with the impression that if they found us they were going to eviscerate us alive or something we were discovered.
Turned out they were having some big ritual where they affirmed their indoctrination in a central chamber of the ship, which for some strange reason resembled a department store. My father informs me that in 15 minutes a bomb would be set off that would destroy the ship, but before that could happen I was informed I had to steal something from their big department store chamber,
they were communing and partaking of their cult stuff. So I meander around, looking for something to pilfer and all the while not get caught doing so, and the whole time I just cant make up my mind about what I want to steal. I look for a video game section of the store but find no such thing; I end up wandering between a carpet section and a section where they sell cups and stuff. Despite my instructions, I feel there isnt anything here I actually
to steal, plus Im getting increasingly nervous that the cultists are going to ask me why I keep wandering about the same spot every two minutes.
I promptly exit the store and go looking for my family so we can skedaddle off the ship and blow it to kingdom come. There are few people in the huge corridors, but when I spot my dad he begins inexplicably shouting at the top of his lungs that everything is ready and we can blow the ship up now. I make frantic cutting notions and hiss through my teeth trying to get him to shut up. Quickly I decide that I have to bolt immediately and I end up turning a corridor and ending up in Willy Wonkas chocolate factory (the Johnny Depp version).
Willy isnt in a very talkative mood and directs me away, but not long after Im accosted by several men who not so subtly instruct me to surrender and get into a car with them. They mention something about some new fillings in my molars (fillings that I suddenly miraculously have). An element of genre savviness leads me to instead bolt and I run across a college campus, running over students carrying books, and somehow I end up losing my pursuers. By now the dream has adopted a very
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sort of feel, going so far that Im thinking that this is the sequel to said movie, and the antagonist (despite the fact that they all the bad guys well,
in that movie) is out to get me and his sending his cloned goons, yet I have no idea why. For some reason Willy Wonka is the best person to ask and I find him not in his factory but behind the desk of a fairly well off candy shop in a mall. He mentions offhand my dental fillings and says that they have extraordinary and proprietary secrets in their manufacture, and that the bad guys therefore want them. Unfortunately, in perhaps the most bizarre rape of logic my dreams have every produced, the laws of physics have changed so that the fillings cant be removed, not without killing me, so in order for the bad guys to obtain them I have to be removed from the picture.
Somewhat shaken, I leave though not without purchasing a huge lollipop, and I sneak off trying to think of some way to save my hide. Then, it hits me in the form of bizarre clairvoyance that informs me that the bad guys corporate headquarters doesnt have flood insurance. Excellent! I can just burst the giant Hoover-esque Dam that sits upriver, flood them out and whoever isn't killed will see the company go completely bankrupt!. Nevermind the fact that its in the middle of a city with millions of people in it, I have antagonists to drown! However as Im driving up to the dam I meet a road block in the form of a Borg invasion thats springing from the middle of the highway. And then I wake up.
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*awards Radioactive Toast with the crazy dream of the month award*
I mean wow... just... wow. That's even worse than most of MY dreams. At least they generally have a coherent plot line O_o
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Anndddd.... I just had my own crazy to follow dream ^.^;
The dream started in Australia with an airplane flight to New York with three other passengers. The first was in the seat in front of me trying to be involved. I didn't like him much and was trying to ignore him for the most part. Sitting immediately to my left was a girl who seemed to be happy at the idea of going to New York with the guy sitting to HER left, presumably her boyfriend. This was the only one of the three I really cared about, though I cannot recall why. I'm not sure when the plane became a train but we were soon circling around the statue of liberty when guy I cared about started trying to gently break the news that he had been to New York before. The girl next to me was furious at him for going without her and I end up leaving all three of them behind.
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I make it back to home where there's a raging storm (starting with a blizzard and ending with rain) and a family friend, Cinders calls to say that she can't meet me for the day, but can I look after her kids for ten minutes or so while she does something really important. I head over and get stuck at college avenue (where I go to college... it's on the way to her house) because of a very long fence at the edge of a cliff and the only way through is an apartment with a confusing layout. Unsurprisingly (to me) I ended up in an old woman's house. She sees me and calls out to stop me. Realizing my mistake, I embarrassingly turn around with my suit case and start leaving before she intercepts me and directs me through the proper route out. It seems this is a rather common occurance and she's well used to it by now. As I left she muttered something about wanting the government to fix the thing.
I quickly found myself at a bar where I get another call from Cinders saying to hurry up so I hire a girl of pirate persuasion to help me get there (after all, I had to get across the river). While I wait for the time to pass (she told me to meet her at a certain time) I decided to get a drink at the bar (soda if you must know) and overheard a couple a table over talking about their child. I volunteered some advice to them and then they left. At this point I proceeded to mistake my empty soda can for a shoe and try to put it on. Perhaps the most astonishing part about this is that while cramped, I was successful in this endeavor.
So I left the bar at 6:25 (actually that's when I got there as well, I think I might have been late) to meet the pirate girl on a pirate ship. She was very annoyed at me for some reason I cannot recall (but it might have been that I was late), but I do seem to remember it involved a scarf of some sorts. She then directed my attention overboard to a floating plastic duck with two seats on it. After a bit of trouble with the railing, I jumped over first and landed in the front seat, a moment later she jumped on behind me and we were shortly on our way. It was not long before we felt a sudden weight and then we promptly sunk. Looking up I saw that we were being assailed by a very large man. That is to say it was a rather normal looking old teenager and we were suddenly children (I did say 'shortly' didn't I?).
I can only surmise he was trying to interfere with the race so we wouldn't come in first. The pirate girl was stuck, but I flailed at the fellow and was able to strike him in the neck paralyzing him long enough for me to reach the surface and get another breath of air before being dragged back under. This time I struck his neck several times and left him floating vaguely at the bottom as I resurfaced to the concerned faces of a bunch of people who seemed to know the pirate girl. I never did make it across the river by the time I woke up...
Somewhere in all of this (or it may have been another dream) I found myself swinging on invisible monkey bars that I created out of air. There was a lot more to this scene but unfortunately I am unable to remember.
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I frequently (maybe once a month or so) have dreams where my teeth are fragile and start breaking apart for no reason at all or dreams where I have class but I've forgotten for a while and I'm in danger of failing because I haven't done any of the assignments or there's a big project/test coming up that I'm not ready for at all. Now from what I know of dreams these are actually pretty frequent and are supposed to mean that a person is stressed. I know I always wake up from these dreams relieved to find that my teeth are perfectly strong or to remember I'm not in school just at the moment, etc, but I still have to wonder what I can possibly be stressed about. As a general rule of thumb I don't stress about anything except maybe for short periods of time when I've got a bunch of stuff to do at once. So why do I keep getting stress dreams?
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Praise be to Allaah.
This du'aa' has no basis. It involves enmity against people other than the aggressor, so it is not permissible to use it because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever does an action that is not in agreement with this matter of ours (i.e., Islam), will have it rejected." And Allaah knows best.


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Tom Kundig is one of the most celebrated architects in Seattle. The recipient of numerous national awards, the subject of books that lavishly depict his modernist and inventive houses, he is known for the way his structures "fit serenely into the landscape," as The New York Times put it last year. See for instance a Kundig-designed house, depicted in another Times piece, that is nestled in a cropping of rocks in the San Juan Islands.
Yet, a small vacation cabin he is building in the Methow Valley for his family and two others is causing a local uproar precisely because of its interaction with the landscape. The boxy, metal-roofed structure sits atop a ridge on Flagg Mountain, which rises above Mazama. The cabin, or "hut" as it is often referred to, is positioned so far forward on the ridge that, with the help of a beam, it juts over the cliff.
"It's hard to think of it as doing anything else but lording it over the landscape," says Bill Pope, an owner of the Mazama Country Inn. He has helped organize a campaign, called Move The Hut, that has circulated a petition asking Kundig and co-owners of the cabin to "reconsider the location of the structure." Roughly 500 people have signed it so far, according to Pope.
Meanwhile, property owners on Flagg Mountain, including a woman who sold the lot upon which Kundig is now building, are suing the architect and the others involved with the project, who include high-end Seattle builder Jim Dow. The plaintiffs claim that Kundig and his partners are violating property covenants that call for any building to be erected with "special sensitivity" that minimizes its "visual impact" to those within its sight-line.
Pope maintains that the cabin can definitely be seen from the valley below. He says he looked up one day in October, and there it was. Apart from any covenants it violates, Pope says the structure runs contrary to an "ethical" code in the valley that says "you don't build on a ridgeline." Despite a flurry of building by wealthy Seatttlies who have picked the stunning spot in the eastern Cascades for a vacation home, that code has up until now not been transgressed, he says.
Kundig has built before in the Methow Valley, designing among other projects a group of rental "rolling huts" that are advertised as a "modern alternative to camping." None of those projects have sparked controversy.
Reached by phone, Kundig says he's done nothing wrong with his newest project. He declines to talk in detail given the ongoing legal proceedings other than to say that the cabin will live "light on the land." He elaborates: "It's an 800-square-foot hut that's off the grid. It harvests the sun. It harvests water."
Dow concedes that the cabin can be seen from the valley. But he contends that the photos publicized by Move the Hut, like the one above, use a telephoto lens that make the structure seem bigger than it is. "We've had people call us and say: 'We can't find it. Where is it?'"
In placing the hut, Dow says, "we had a number of constraints. One of the most crucial was that there are three pieces of property on the ridge, and the other two property owners up there were very concerned they not see our cabin." That could only happen if the cabin was built where it is, according to Dow.
"So we tried to do some things to minimize [the impact]," he continues, adding that making the cabin small was one of them.
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Is it possible to predict whether someone is likely to survive or die suddenly from a heart attack?
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"For some people, the first heart attack is more likely to be their last," said Elsayed Z. Soliman, M.D., M.Sc., M.S., director of the Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center (EPICARE) at Wake Forest Baptist and lead author of the study. "For these people especially, it is important that we find ways to prevent that first heart attack from ever happening because their chances of living through it are not as good."
While there are many traits that are common among heart attack patients – both those who survive the event and those who die suddenly – researchers found that some traits, such as hypertension, race/ethnicity, body mass index (BMI), heart rate, and additional markers that can be identified by an electrocardiogram (ECG) can differentiate between dying suddenly versus living through a heart attack, Soliman said.
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The Chappaqua resident who is now the JV coach and assistant varsity coach at Greeley, was prompted to start the venture after receiving numerous requests from local parents to privately coach their children. He has successfully worked with over 15 student athletes in the community to help them pursue their dreams of being recruited to play lacrosse in college.
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The Perils of Disapproving God
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any
longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things
which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness,
wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,
malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent,
arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31
without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and
although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice
such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but
also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Paul's teaching about why a society degenerates into unrestrained, debauched, destructive evil is unlike any analysis you would read today. One of the reasons for this is that when a society is sinking into moral decay, one of the traits of that decay is the inability to see what is happening. The social mind becomes so defective in the moral decadence that it doesn't have the categories or the framework to recognize evil for what it really is.
We do live in such a day. The inability to render sound moral judgments is evident almost wherever you look. Which makes this passage of Scripture one of the most relevant and needed texts in all the Bible for our day - precisely because it seems so foreign. Today, if something doesn't seem spiritually or morally foreign, it is probably part of the blind and decadent atmosphere we breathe, and therefore of no real use to us, no matter how good it makes us feel.
What we need is a word from outside our defective world and our depraved thinking. We need a word from God. And we may certainly expect such a word to be very strange, because we have become strangers to the reality of God in a very self-absorbed age.
What we have in today's text is a list of twenty-one ways of sinning or twenty-one kinds of evil. And what I think we should do is notice, first, why Paul gives us this list and where such evil comes from. Then we should look at the list itself and ask why it's here. Then we should ask what the solution is to these kinds of things.
Where Do these Evils in Verses 29-31 Come From?
So, first, where do the evils listed in verses 29-31 come from?
It all started back in verse 18 where Paul gave the reason for why the gospel of the gift of God's righteousness is so desperately needed. You recall that he said in verse 16 that the gospel is "the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." Why? Verse 17: "For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'But the righteous shall live by faith.'" In other words: the gospel is the power of God to save believers because in it God gives us what we need and could never produce on our own, namely, his own righteousness. The righteousness that he demands from us he freely gives to us, if we will trust him. This is the great Biblical truth of justification by faith.
Then in verse 18 he tells us why this gospel of the gift of God's righteousness is so desperately needed: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness." We need the righteousness of God because it is the only thing that can protect us from the wrath of God. And we need to be protected from the wrath of God because we are unrighteous by nature and suppress the truth of God. By nature we don't like God and we don't want him in our lives. I tremble just to say it.
The Effects of Suppressing the Truth of God
So what Paul does in the following verses is describe for us the effects of suppressing the truth of God. He wants us to see all the evil of the world as a river that flows from this spring. Reject God, suppress God, distort God, recreate God in your own image to your own liking, and the effect is worse than we expect. And the thing that is worse than we expect is that God joins our crusade against God, as it were, and delivers us into the debasing effects of our own rebellion against him.
We've seen it three times. In verse 23, we exchange the glory of God for images, and verse 24 says, "Therefore God gave them over to the lusts of their hearts." In verse 25, we exchange the truth about God for a lie, and verse 26 says, "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions." And today in verse 28 we see it again: "They did not see fit to acknowledge God (or literally: they did not approve to have God in their knowledge), [therefore] God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."
This is what Paul means by the wrath of God being revealed (verse 18): God's wrath is being revealed against the world, as human beings all over the world set their affections on other things more than on God. God's response to this worldwide disloyalty and treason against our Creator is not, first, to send us to hell, but to see that we sink into the swamp we have chosen.
This is what I was referring to at the beginning when I said that Paul's teaching about why societies often degenerate into unrestrained, debauched, destructive evil is unlike any analysis you would read today. Today you might hear someone say: Okay, America, you have built your bed of secular, God- belittling relativism and amorality, so now sleep in it. But that is not what Paul says here.
He says something far more horrifying about God's wrath. He gives us his analysis of our situation in four steps. Just take verse 28 from today's text to see all four. First, he says that the root problem is that we don't like having God in our knowledge. "They did not see fit to acknowledge God." That is the fundamental problem in the world. That is the essence of the human condition. We don't want God. We want self-determination and self-exaltation. That was the first sin in the garden. And that is the root of all evil today. We do not want to know God or have him in our lives.
The Depth of our Sin Is Divine Judgment
The second step of God's analysis is that God, in an act of judgment (recall the revealing of "wrath" in verse 18) withdraws his common restraints on our rebellion and gives us over to sink in the swamp we have chosen. This is what you will not hear in any social analysis today. Who today has the God-centered realism to say: The depth of our sin does not just deserve divine judgment, it is divine judgment? That is what Paul says. You can't really understand America (or any other country) today without this revealed truth. Even if we tried to boast over God that at least we have our self-determination in rebelling against God, God would answer: you think so? Think again.
The third step in Paul's analysis (in verse 28) is that the effect of God's giving us over and removing his common restraints (see Genesis 20:6) is that we are imprisoned by a "depraved mind." "God gave them over to a depraved mind." Our minds become more and more defective in sin. Not only do we use them to sin, but we can't even think clearly about sin. We can't recognize it. It's as if we turned away from God and fell in love with the African black fly that carries the roundworm that causes river blindness, and then God gave us over to the fly and the worm - and the blindness - so that all we can do now is fondle the fly (of sin!) and keep trying to convince ourselves that it's a precious tuft of velvet.
The fourth step of the analysis (in verse 28) is that our defective mind produces all kinds of evils. Paul goes on to list twenty-one of them as samples.
So now we have our answer to the first question, namely, where does such evil come from? It comes from: 1) our desire not to have God in our knowledge; and 2) from God's judgment on mankind to give us over to sink in the swamp we love; and 3) from the depraved or defective mind that we sink into.
What Is this List and Why Is it Here?
So now we can ask the question: What is this list of evils? What are we to make of this long list and why is it here?
Let's read it again. Verse 28b-31: "God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful."
Of course, a person could raise an objection against Paul here: this is not the way all unbelievers are. Some are very conscientious, law-abiding, philanthropic, courteous, decent people. Yes, that's true, and Paul knew it was true. He was quite aware, for example, of the Stoics of his own day - people like Seneca and later, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, who prided themselves in not being like this list of evils, and yet, who were not Christians.
No, the point of this list is not to say that every society which refuses to love the true God will look just like this. We know this because, in verses 26-27, Paul says that homosexual desire is also a result of not loving God above other things, and being handed over by God, and yet Paul clearly does not think that every unbeliever has homosexual desires. Similarly, here in verse 28-31, when he says that all these sins are the result of refusing to acknowledge God, and he doesn't mean that every unbeliever, or group of unbelievers, has all these sins or in the same measure. Instead, these are samples. They are the sort of thing that comes from rejecting God, and the more God gives a people up to their own unrestrained depravity, the more their society will have these sins in greater and greater measure.
Every Form of Evil comes from Failing to Know God
So what's the point of listing all these sins? The point, I think, is to give us enough examples to show that virtually every form of evil has to do with God and comes from failing to know him and approve him and love him above all things. In other words, he gives us a sweeping array of evils to waken us to the fact that the ruin of any area of life is owing to the abandonment of God. Verse 28: they did not want God in their knowledge, therefore . . . and then he gives his list of evils.
In other words: the point of the list is to connect God with every sin in the world. And we've seen that the connection is twofold: every sin is rooted in our preferring something else to God; and every sin gets worse as God takes away his restraints and gives us up to sink in the swamp we have chosen.
If America has the highest murder rate in the western world, it has to do with God. If our executives are greedy, it has to do with God. If our politicians are deceitful, it has to do with God. If we gossip about each other behind the back, it has to do with God. If our talk show hosts are insolent and boastful, it has to do with God. If our children are disobedient to parents, it has to do with God. If we are untrustworthy and don't keep our marriage vows, it has to do with God. If we are blind to obvious wrongs and are unloving and unmerciful, it has to do with God.
That's the point of this list. Wherever we are sinking in sin, it is because we have jumped off the rock of the glory of God.
How Shall We Battle these Destructive Evils?
Which brings us finally to the third and last question: What is the solution? How shall we battle back against these destructive evils in our own lives and in our culture?
The answer is what the whole book of Romans is about. But let's close by looking at three great reversals. 1) We need the reversal of God's wrath against our unrighteousness. 2) We need the reversal of God's handing us over to a depraved mind. 3) We need the reversal of our mind's moral decay so that it can be renewed for right and proper use in God's service.
The good news is that God has provided every one of those reversals. You do not have to sink any further if you will embrace God and his provision. Here is the key verse for each of these reversals.
The key verse for the reversal of God's wrath against us is Romans 1:17: In the gospel of Christ, "the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'The righteous shall live by faith.'" In other words, the righteousness that God demands from us, he freely gives to us, if we will turn back to him and trust him to be our greatest Good. And if you have the righteousness of God, you are not under the wrath of God any more. A very happy reversal!
The key verse for the reversal of God's handing us over to a depraved mind is Romans 6:17. "Thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were handed over [same word as Romans 1:28]." This is the exact reversal of the hand-over in Romans 1:28. Here it is to a form of teaching that is true and holy, not false and dirty. And notice that it is God who does it. "Thanks be to God," Paul says, that you became obedient to this teaching. God gives us over to truth and righteousness as much as he once gave us over to sin.
Finally, the key verse for reversing the defectiveness of our minds is Romans 12:2. "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."
When God has given us his righteousness by faith in Jesus, and when he has handed us over to a new teaching of truth and begun to make us obedient to it, then little by little we are transformed in the renewing of our minds and the long list of sins in Romans 1:29-31 becomes shorter and weaker to the glory of God.
This is the key to life. This is the message that we take to the neighborhood and to the nations. I call you and urge you to receive these three reversals from the hand of God by faith: 1) the reversal of God's wrath through the gift of God's righteousness; 2) the reversal of being handed over to depravity through being handed over to truth; and 3) the reversal of a depraved mind through the transformation of a renewed mind.